Jane Austen and the Body: 'The Picture of Health'

by John Wiltshire

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Jane Austen has been thought of as a novelist of manners whose work discreetly avoids discussing the physical. John Wiltshire shows, on the contrary, how important are bodies and faces, illness and health, in the novels, from complainers and invalids such as Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Woodhouse, to the frail, debilitated Fanny Price, the vulnerable Jane Fairfax and the picture of health, Emma. The book draws on modern theories of the body, and on eighteenth-century...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521024994

ISBN13:9780521024990

Release Date:March 2006

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Women Writers Women's Studies

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